who attacks the weather channel?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/media/weather-channel-hack/index.html

a message of 69 lines which said:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/media/weather-channel-hack/index.html

May be these people?

I think WU was actually bought by weatherunderground...

According to this, Weather Underground was purchased by the Weather Channel and firmed “The Weather Company”, and that was in turn purchased by IBM last year.

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/weather-underground-bought-by-ibm.html

Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways…

The Weather Channel is now a separate entity, which is the cable channel only.

The Weather Company is the entity now owned by IBM, and it provides the web content and apps such as Weather Underground and Weather.com.

I live near their corporate HDQ and interview there for a job, so they explained all of this to me at the time.

–Jonathan Rogers

When IBM purchased TWC, IBM summarily cancelled our heretofore free weather station monitoring through Wunderground.com. Instead IBM offered to “sell” us our own remote data center weather stations information back to us at an exorbitant price. No thank you. We switched everything to Ambient.com.

The idea of Wunderground.com was free public collection and sharing of useful weather data to vastly increase the density of coverage over commercial services. It’s a pity IBM, who otherwise supports open source through it’s vast Linux contributions, couldn’t see that.

During the Santa Barbara fires last year, our weather station on Gibraltar Peak was the one source firefighting helicopter pilots had to obtain ridge wind speeds, which was critical to their operation. Neither the NWS nor TWC or IBM is willing to invest in critical public information infrastructure. I’m a capitalist, but I don’t believe destroying the good works of others is ultimately profitable.

-mel

I mistyped. It’s AmbientWeather.com. Here’s the Gibraltar Peak weather station link if anyone is interested:

https://dashboard.ambientweather.net/devices/public/143d3d3f9aa00e499954061991374c7b

Ignore the rain data. Something is not mapping correctly from our weather station to the Ambient data collection, so it looks like we have many feet of rain :slight_smile: But it’s wind and temperature we’re most concerned with, so I haven’t put any time into sorting out the decimal point in the rain gauge, or whatever is the cause of crazy rain data.

-mel

umm...

Thinking this was a joke that, by the replies I've seen, most people are too young to get the reference to radical 60's politics

Also it seems no one actually clicked through on the link, which would have suggested this

*sigh*

- John

Look on the bright side - if this type of thing still prompts a *sigh*
you're not all that old.

Best Regards,
Lee

>> a message of 69 lines which said:
>>
>>> https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/media/weather-channel-hack/index.html
>>
>> May be these people?
>>
>> Weather Underground - Wikipedia
>>
>
> umm...
>
> Thinking this was a joke that, by the replies I've seen, most people are
> too young to get the reference to radical 60's politics
>

sure, but is painting an actual org with that brush a good idea?
which was why I pointed out that WU was bought by TWC. (not the other
TWC, of course)

> Also it seems no one actually clicked through on the link, which would
> have suggested this
>
> *sigh*
>
Look on the bright side - if this type of thing still prompts a *sigh*
you're not all that old.

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